Top 10 Corruption Scams in India

The post below talks about some of the biggest and most talked about Corruption scams in India. While there are corruption scams being unearthed very regularly, we have selectively come up with list that have been most damaging. Unfortunately in most of the cases, the perpetrator of scams are still at large because cases are pending in Indian Courts.

An average Indian citizen is hard working and diligent, but it is the people in charge of the system (The Babu’s) or with whom the power lays, that act as a cancer spreading the venom, slowing down progress and what not. But, somewhere down the line, we ourselves are responsible for allowing and being taken for a ride by these people, aren’t we? However, it is during a multi-thousand crore scam, that a tax-payer actually realizes the heartburn of being cheated from his valued contribution of funds towards the development and well-being of the nation. But, that’s what a scam, be it big or small, means – the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme or action.

Some of the below listed scams you would already know about, but some may really surprise you with their size. Please note that the amount mentioned in the scams in appropriation. No one knows exact figures. We have collected the numbers from various sources.

The Top Corruption Scams in India

1. Indian Coal Allocation Scam – 2012 – 1,86,000 Crore

While many think that 2G scam remains the biggest one in size in India. But this coal allocation scam dwarfs it by the amount involved. This scam is in regards to Indian Government’s allocation of nation’s coal deposit to PSU’s and private companies. The scam happened under Manmohan Singh government and came out in 2012.

The basic premise of this scam was that wrongful allocation of Coal deposits by Government without resorting to competitive bidding, which would have made huge amounts to the Government (to tune of 1.86 Lakh crore). However, the coal deposits were allocated arbitrarily.

2. 2G Spectrum Scam – 2008 – 1,76,000 Crore

We have had a number of scams in India; but none bigger than the scam involving the process of allocating unified access service licenses. At the heart of this Rs.1.76-lakh crore worth of scam is the former Telecom minister A Raja – who according to the CAG, has evaded norms at every level as he carried out the dubious 2G license awards in 2008 at a throw-away price which were pegged at 2001 prices.

In some respects, this remains the biggest scam in India if you consider the inflation. The 2G spectrum allocation happened 5 years earlier than Coal Scam which came out in 2012.

The cases are still going on against many people including A. Raja, M. K. Kanimozhi and many telecommunication companies as well.

3. Wakf Board Land Scam – 2012 – 1.50,000 Crore

In March of 2012, Anwar Maniapddy, the chairman of Karnataka State Minorities Commission submitted a sensational report which alleged 27,000 acres of land, which was controlled by Karnataka Wakf Board had been allocated illegally or misappropriated. The value of land which was misappropriated was in tune of 1.5 to 2 lakh crore rupees.

The land managed by Wakf board, a Muslim charitable trust, is typically donated to under-privileged and poor people of Muslim community. However, the report alleged that nearly 50 percent of the land owned by Wakf board was misappropriated by Politicians and Board members in conjunction with real estate mafia at fraction of actual land cost.

The investigations for this are currently ongoing.

4. Commonwealth Games Scam – 2010 – 70,000 Crore

Another feather in the cap of Indian scandal list is Commonwealth Games loot. Yes, literally a loot! Even before the long awaited sporting bonanza could see the day of light, the grand event was soaked in the allegations of corruption.

It is estimated that out of Rs. 70000 crore spent on the Games, only half the said amount was spent on Indian sportspersons. The Central Vigilance Commission, involved in probing the alleged corruption in various Commonwealth Games-related projects, has found discrepancies in tenders – like payment to non-existent parties, will-ful delays in execution of contracts, over-inflated price and bungling in purchase of equipment through tendering – and misappropriation of funds.

5. Telgi Scam – 2002 – 20,000 Crore

As they say, every scam must have something unique in it to make money out of it in an unscrupulous manner- and Telgi scam had all the suspense and drama that the scandal needed to thrive and be busted. Abdul Karim Telgi had mastered the art of forgery in printing duplicate stamp papers and sold them to banks and other institutions. The tentacles of the fake stamp and stamp paper case had penetrated 12 states and was estimated at a whooping Rs. 20000 crore plus. The Telgi clearly had a lot of support from government departments that were responsible for the production and sale of high security stamps.

6. Satyam Scam – 2009 – 14,000 Crore

The scam at Satyam Computer Services is something that will shatter the peace and tranquility of Indian investors and shareholder community beyond repair. Satyam is the biggest fraud in the corporate history to the tune of Rs. 14000 crore.

The company’s disgraced former chairman Ramalinga Raju kept everyone in the dark for a decade by fudging the books of accounts for several years and inflating revenues and profit figures of Satyam. Finally, the company was taken over by the Tech Mahindra which has done wonderfully well to revive the brand Satyam.

7. Bofors Scam – 1980s & 90s – 100 to 200 Crore

The Bofors scandal is known as the hallmark of Indian corruption. The Bofors scam was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; when the then PM Rajiv Gandhi and several others including a powerful NRI family named the Hindujas, were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer.

The Swedish State Radio had broadcast a startling report about an undercover operation carried out by Bofors, Sweden’s biggest arms manufacturer, whereby $16 million were allegedly paid to members of PM Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress.

Most of all, the Bofors scam had a strong emotional appeal because it was a scam related to the defense services and India’s security interests.

8. The Fodder Scam – 1990s – 1,000 Crore

If you haven’t heard of Bihar’s fodder scam of 1996, you might still be able to recognize it by the name of “Chara Ghotala,” as it is popularly known in the vernacular language. In this corruption scandal worth Rs.900 crore, an unholy nexus was traced involved in fabrication of “vast herds of fictitious livestock” for which fodder, medicine and animal husbandry equipment was supposedly procured.

9. The Hawala Scandal – 1990-91 – 100 Crore

The Hawala case to the tune of $18 million bribery scandal, which came in the open in 1996, involved payments allegedly received by country’s leading politicians through hawala brokers. From the list of those accused also included Lal Krishna Advani who was then the Leader of Opposition.

Thus, for the first time in Indian politics, it gave a feeling of open loot all around the public, involving all the major political players being accused of having accepted bribes and also alleged connections about payments being channeled to Hizbul Mujahedeen militants in Kashmir.

Although not corruption scams, these have affected many people. There is no way that the investor community could forget the unfortunate Rs. 4000 crore Harshad Mehta scam and over Rs. 1000 crore Ketan Parekh scam which eroded the shareholders wealth in form of big market jolt.

Criminal cases filed against 11 accused in the South Indian Co-op Bank Scam (104+ crore) at the best of Reserve Bank of India are gathering dust in the Court. Though a complainant, RBI pretends total ignrance of the case. Meanwhile around 4000 affected depositors are languishing (some of them have escaped from the wretched world – anxiety deaths). Saraswat Bank which took over the said bank along with 65 others in 2008 has amassed a business of Rs.10000+ crore on what theier boses considered as “WASTE”, Though their total NPA as per latest audited balance sheet is negligible, they still do not come forward to honourably settle the dues of the unfortunate depositors, whose 35% deposits are slowly but surely been gulped by them. State/Central Government, RBI and their respective talented legal team are enjoying the fun at the cost of the affected depositors. This India THE BIGGEST DEMOCRACY OF THE WORLD.

I am Anwar Manippady. The scam is 2.3 lakh chores. Actually it’s much much more if you take into consideration the findings after submission of the report. GOVT. Of Karnatak now facing Contempt of Court and wrath of Governor and article 356 may be invoked as there is a constitutional crisis now.

Q)Vijay Mallya seeks time till early April to appear before ED–
A) Are the negotiations with his criminal lawyer similar to Sri Ram jathmalani not got finalised?
Q) Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘aag’ on Vijay Mallya and his ‘bikini babes’ –
“I think Vijay Mallya should dip into his personal bank and give one bikini beauty each to every bank he owes and square off all his debts,” Varma tweeted, adding, “The banks might not agree to Vijay Mallya’s bikini proposal but the bankers might.”
I think Vijay Mallya should dip into his personal bank and give one bikini beauty each to every bank he owes and square off all his debts
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) March 11, 2016
A) The banks were not fighting with Mr Mallya for refund of the loan on the ground. In the court of law, the bunch of criminal lawyers on behalf of him are fighting against the lawyers of banks. Actually, people believe lawyers from both sides are getting kickbacks from Mr Mallya. Hence no progress can be achieved even after decades of fight in our courts. Interrogating lawyers will give all the information about the strategies. CBI/CID/CVC/ACB can never achieve breakthrough of the criminal lawyers, because many officials act as covert to help those lawyers. NIA can only go to grass roots to find the real corrupt bank officials and corrupt lawyers, who collectively cheat the country through banking and judicial system. This analysis is made after listening & going through the mind of a noted criminal lawyer in Hyderabad in a fakeSC papers lecturer case smt Biruda Raja Ratnam of ASP college, Ram Kothi, Hyderabad. AP high court 3754/2012, CC201/2012

Supreme Court gives RBI six weeks to submit list of biggest loan defaulters
BIG BANK ROBBERS..STILL WE OUGHT TO RESPECT THEM… CRONE CAPITALISTS….
The newly laid out scheme by RBI called Strategic Debt Restructuring (SDR), as part of which a consortium of lenders converts a part of their loan in an ailing company into equity, with the consortium owning at least 51 per cent stake. Is it not an extension to CDR… similar to criminals enjoying STAY orders followed by squashing orders from their crimes.
If banks are unable to sell to a new promoter within 18 months, then all regulatory relaxations cease to exist and lenders have to treat these assets as NPAs and make 100 per cent provisioning for these assets in majority of the cases. It’s unfortunate that a common man gets hauled for missing a single EMI on their cars and homes but the bada netas travel in private jets even after defaulting on lakhs of crores…

In India, Most of the public prosecutors act as coverts to governments, where social welfare is considered. Instead of fighting for the welfare cause of the country, they give all papers and share information with the opposite lawyer for the sake of extra money/income. This had been a practice for years/ decades together. Policy is respected but attitude shows the execution. Unfortunately, there is no monitoring agency to check their sincerity in India. Many cheaters cheat the society as they do not have no self reliance and faith in system. They rely on approach through back door methods. when they are caught, they approach lawyers to escape from the crime, as earlier. If you follow any leading lawyer, then you can get all methods which are out of law books. Judicial laws are just preached in class rooms. But economic back ground, social status& attitude are considered in execution of judgment . Man eating man-society can be seen by delaying things.

Anslem Prathap from Bangalore, Karnataka, India is probably the worst scammer in India.He scammed a lot of companies, get the money and dissapear. Stole a lot of money from poor people and from others.
Be aware , he is a great con-master. Don’t deal with him

No criminal can flourish without the support of bad politicians, bad police and lawyers. Even the call money has many sharks under the carpet, who will definitely form a group soon to rescue all involved criminals leaving the victims to pray the god at the end. unfortunately, Media is suppressing those great lawyers behind the corrupt people. Every lender has the support of a lawyer who assures support in case of eventuality. Nothing happens to rich criminals in India. Lawyers and judges drag those cases to make money for themselves and dissolve them at the end like Tsundur massacre case, salman khan case..etc. “It is said that you are a good lawyer if you know the law…but you are a great lawyer if you know the judge,” Azad said, suggesting the need to have an Indian Judicial Service on the lines of IAS and IPS.

Corruption is omni present. High Courts are not spared. Just Judgements speak a lot, as family members to know how cheating at every stage is carried by different people at different places. No place is safe.
A corruption case never ends, if ACB/CBI/CVC or other Govt Body catches the corrupt employee red handed. It is just one goal scored in half time of a foot ball or hocky match. The real case of corruption begins in the remaining half time, when it goes to courts. There is no control, no discipline, no secrecy, no confidentiality, no national integrity. The only crime that will be visible is, which party can bear the charges of lawyers&judges for favourable verdicts irrespective of the crime. Many lawyers are often caught in clubs playing rummy. Many Lawyers master the playing cards game ‘Rumm”, which reflects their style in profession. Rest is common sense to understand as they disclose every person who is running network at every stage. In India, there is no vigilance on lawyers & Judges. Criminals exchange ideas and sharpen skills in jails, while lawyers do it in informal way. How does enquiry/hearing on a corrupt case end abruptly? It is known to every educated fellow to interpret the meaning of ‘Law takes its own course of time’. To know more details in this regard, please meet sri sarikonda Papa Raju, smt Biruda Raja Ratnam & their family members to know about HC Lawyer sri Godey Satish. Refer WP3754/2012, CC201/2012, CC1023/2013 for fake SC papers case. Every detail can be heard from them.

In INDIA, before catching a corrupt employee or person by CBI/ACB/CID, a thorough sketch is made based upon the complaints. After catching the individual in their net, the dept handover the case to Public prosecutors who can have a strong deal with defence lawyer of the caught corrupt. Really, what a lucky chance of rendering national duty. CBI/ACB/CID abandon the cases to time. No curiosity to keep a watch on lawyers

Identifying a criminal and catching him/her with a trap is one aspect of bringing the criminal to books. But those agencies give up the credit by not ensuring that he/she gets the punishment in the court of law. Why the same spirit is not used to trap the lawyer of the criminal after apprehending to the court of law? In India, it is a practice to allow lawyers to take away those criminals with their will and wish. we find this often in the case of fake SC job holders. here is a case. smt Biruda Raja Ratnam, a fake SC papers job holder in ASP college, Ramkothi, Hyderabad. Even though she was caught and removed by District Collector, she got reinstated by a foul game in court of law. In India, many people knew such practices. She got all help from corrupt people in her progress in life in corrupt way. Even though she failed 10th class 6-8 times, she managed to draw a salary of Rs 80,000 per month just by following corrupt methods. she knew the weakness of men to get her fake SC papers , UGCNET papers, lecturer job, PhD papers, affidavits from addl adv generals and HC orders from sri Bala Chander, sarikonda sai rama raju, sri Chandra sekhar , sri niranjan reddy, sri godey satish, judges and many corrupt people at her will and wish apart from cheating relatives in the tune of lakhs. It shoes how lawyers are involved in corrupt practices in high court. Her network is very large after concatenating with sri Godey satish’s corrupt network in Hyderabad city. May god bless those victims who lost lakhs to her, as her lawyer created a situation in court of law that she is made victim of conspiracy. Family members knew the truth that she is a big 420 along with her husband sri sarikonda papa raju. victims are watching all developments.

Blackpearl Outsourcing from Ahmadabad is a fraud company. Mr. Ayushman , Mr. Prakash, Mr. Ashwin are from the company Management, who now seem to be a regular scammers. They charged a huge consultancy fees for Book Publishing project. We started working on this project in the month of November 2014, according to the contract we are suppose to get our payment in the month of January 2015 on completion of the target. But till date we are yet to receive payment from them and neither they have given any sort of intimation for the delay. They are verbally going on promising to pay and keep extending the payment dates over the phone, via email and through Skype. But now they are not even bothering to receive our calls. Till date neither has they paid any amount or forwarded any documents providing payment securities.
We have enough evidence against them, which can be produced if we sue them. I am sure that this company needs to be exposed. The entire process is a scam. We need to extract our payment immediately.
Beware everyone about this company. If anyone is facing the same kind of problem with Blackpearl Outsourcing please get in touch with us. We can find a way mutually and save our company from the harassment in future.

In science, if a disease to human can not be brought under control, the Govt declares it as epidemic. The blood samples from a patient are taken for micro biological analysis and a vaccination is developed to counter that evil effect of that virus. Many fake sc papers Govt Job holders are acquitted in the cases. The family members, relatives and neighbours are 100% aware of the fake SC papers. But the social welfare officers never find time meet them to find more truth of crime beyond fake sc papers. Instead, they work in favor of fake sc papers job holders by taking money as bribes. They draw salaries to work for corrupt. As conviction is less than 10% and acquittal in judicial cases of SC/ST atrocity cases or Govt job holders with fake SC/ST papers is more than 90%, Govt never takes initiative to find grass root of failure in those cases. IAS officers are often murdered(physical elimination ex: Karnatak IAS officer Ravi) for being honest by the corrupt builders. Also IAS Officers smt K.Sunitha (CCE,AP) and Dist collector Natarajan Guljar were served with contempt of court orders for being honest in removing a fake SC papers job holder smt Biruda Raja Ratnam, lecturer, ASP Oriental college, Ram Koti, Hyderabad. The family members of smt Raja Ratnam and husband sri sarikonda Papa Raju are fully aware of developement took place from day one how their lawyer sri Godey Satish coordinated the corrupt officials to acquit her in the cases.

It’s true
that public prosecutors are giving
all the loop holes inside the high
court judicial system. Refer AP
high court come
with money. bribe all the way.
take away the judgment. Question
papers are sold & leaked by Govt
employees only. same with high
court judgment by ensuring no
opposition. Make merry with the
present corrupt people.
In nutshell Indian administration could not fulfil their desire even conducting such big scams

It’s true that public prosecutors are giving all the loop holes inside the high court judicial system. Refer AP high court WP34322/2014. come with money. bribe all the way. take away the judgment. Question papers are sold & leaked by Govt employees only. same with high court judgment by ensuring no opposition. Make merry with the present corrupt people. All money…every where…

Be proud of being Indian in other aspects too. If you don’t pay Rs 30/- extra to Gas Cylinder delivery boy, then you won’t get cylinder. If you don’t pay Rs 1500/- to police verification, then you won’t get passport. If you don’t pay Rs 200/- to every chair of revenue department, no one talks to you. If you don’t pay Rs 1000/- to a S.I in police Stn, you will get shabby treatment of not taking prior permission for patient hearing. If you complain against any such person, then it’s end of your work’s journey. If ACB inspectors, Judges are earning crores of rupees, then whom you will contact? In the Recent Coal Blcok Scam hearing, the Judge asked sri Prasanth Bhushan to disclose the name of the fellow who gave the visitor’s list of CBI Chief Ranjith Sinha. ‘Target the person(complainant) to dilute and finish any corruption case’ is the new phenomenon administered by most of the successful lawyers. Sri Godey Satish (Public prosecutor cum private lawyer) adopted same path to get mileage in a fake SC papers job holder case in Hyd. The analysis emerged out of HC Orders AP high Court WP 34322/2011, CC201/2012,WP3754/2012 and CC1023/2013 has shown the practices in HC that key papers are always photocopied & exchanged with the concerned. Expiry medicine gives complications. similarly, Treatment to a fake SC with ‘Law’ gets punishment to IAS officers who took up this case.

one of the worst i have seen regarding south in most IT companies the recruit in north then force them to move to south and on the job portal IT companies post jobs for north location but that are actually not delhi jobs best example is Accenture now days HCL is also doing same

INDIAN Govt (NDA) wants to ban porn sites…Nice idea… Before that many more are to be banned.
In Karnataka assembly, MLAs were viewing porn MMS in their mobiles, when the session was on. what happened ? A circle Inspector was caught viewing porn files in Durga Temple of Vijayawada during dushera festival season celebrations. what happened ? Bollywood invited a porn star Sunny Leone as herioine. what happened? Our Bollywood films also encourage smooching & many. Hence, It is not the pornography that is spoiling indian culture? People are asking – When the children of politicians, rich people are involved in a crime,why the law keeps about turn on the complainant? No nirbhay case on son of then railway minister..now law minister.(kannada Actress Mytreyi filed FIR &case-no action)
Govt wants us to look at it’s action at swiss bank for black money& defaulters list as if no other country in the world takes deposits for such money.In India itself, so much black money is spent during elections. NO one is asked or caught so far to find out the roots of it’s generation. New Indian Govt always says the farmer of other country gets more yield from one acre of land by putting more hard work. So all the farmers or workers must follow such steps of getting more out put. The characterstics of soil, cultivation methods, water resources makes the difference. In singapore, there are no cases pending in courts. No corrupt judge/lawyer/Public prosecutor is found. Take such example. why do we have some many pending cases, lawyers and judges taking too much money& time to show their bare talent. If the pending cases become zero, then automatically India becomes a force to reckon with developed countries. Just a fox can not paint stripes on it’s body to mimic like a tiger. Many managers copy tricks by adopting foreign culture. Most of them are copy cats. They suggest -Introduce more machines to replace working people in India, as they demand more wages. Unfortunately, those machine go out of order after 3-days. ex- weighing machines in Railway platforms. If the machine doesn’t generate ticket after putting Rs2/- coin, Indians will bang/hit it for its proper functioning. PNR status touch screens were taken out from major stations due to rough handling. Swachch bharath is possible, if things are shown against corporate bosses who are polluting our country irrespective of any party coming into power. cine actors show a poor man going for natural call & washing himself in river. This depiction shows River Ganges is getting polluted by those people who go for natural call. It’s wrong totally.Instead of catching them, Tanneries/Pharma companies polluting river Ganges & owners of those companies must be shown in advertisements.

n India, Our Govt enacts good system in Parliament with ideal concepts. But, unfortunately in practice, we handover/appoint the charge to the most corrupt fellow to monitor it’s functioning and anticipate quick and good results. Is it possible? That corrupt fellow thinks himself as monarch & takes his own decisions depending on bribes offered to him. As the logic in the judgment is ambiguous(beyond anybody’s guess), critics conclude it as the effect of wine & women and nothing else. Also, if a judgment given after 15yrs of case filed,some critics say- 15 years betting/ playing cards game was carried out by giving money to lawyers&judges to have final show. The ultimate beneficiaries are the lawyers & judges. while a prostitute sells her body for money out of poverty, what can we say about lawyers & judges if they sell system(Mother India) for money out of greediness. How do many judges address public meetings & award among themselves as ‘NYAYA SRI” or “NYAYA RATNAM”? People are fully aware that Public prosecutors are taking up private cases to sell the country interests. It is seen in fake SC papers cases even after District Collector submits report as fake SC. These public prosecutors send police to horrify relatives not to leak any information of fake SC, else they will be trapped into IPC 254 or IPC 376(fake charges). Refer case AP High Court WP 34322/2011, CC201/2012, AP3754/2012, CC1023/2013..cases.

In india, it doesn’t require much knowledge to cheat public or government. Often we find, a thief opens a knife to loot some one’s money. A Gentle man pushes his woman to cheat/lure some one’s money by promising a plot/flat/job/contract..etc. Former one is called as criminal, if caught. Later one is called as white collar criminal, who is never punished. Because proper care is taken to avoid evidence, proof..etc.
Why do young people blame politicians for the rise of corruption in India? It’s wrong. we forgive politicians inevitably. In India Laws are very strict for saying.
(1) Anti-Defection Law- very great law which is used to stop defection from opposition party to ruling party. what is it’s effect so far? zero. Because, every defected MLA/MP knocks the door of court after a show cause notice is served by speaker after dilly dallying for one year. Later the judges drag the case for 3yrs & 9 months to give final decision of disqualified. The prime time of 4 Yr 9 Months out of 5 Yr tenure is completed and next elections will be announced soon. Perception- Judges take bribes
(2) Fake SC papers Law- very great Law, which is used to stop the use of fake SC papers in jobs. what is it’s effect so far? zero. Because, every fake SC employee knocks the door of court after show cause notice to get ‘STAY’ orders. Kater the judges drag the case for 36 Yrs to give final decision. The prime time of 36 Yrs out of 38 Yrs of Govt service is completed and punishment may be marginal/null.
some one listened to a leading Andhra Pradesh HC Lawyer that even though constitutionally a District Collector’s report is valid one to dismiss a fake SC job holder, Bribes always make the difference. If sufficient bribe is paid in the channel, the District Collector’s report is pushed into the invisible bore well of high court to get natural death. ln HC, some decision are taken by ensuring that no serious concerned person is present at that time and Public Prosecutors are bribed to keep mum. Also The judge never asks for other family members evidence. If asked, fake people are presented there. Any educated person is knowing the truth, then hire police is used to threaten him. For 36 Yrs, who can run behind this case? So there is much organised crime exists in judicial system. Let any Govt come to power..congress, BJP, Third Front ..all are same. Those who want to fight against corruption must know that they can not stand in front of corrupt lawyers &judges. First..you plead, pray… then you cry.. then you shout…then you will be subjected to psychiatric treatment. Be aware of fraud lawyers…they are the backbone to corrupt people. This story is given after observing a fake SC Woman who claimed Lecturer job in Govt aided College. She failed 10th class 10-times, never studied inter mediate, just passed degree & post Graduation in open university. Her name is smt Biruda Raja Ratnam, Lecturer, ASP COllege, Ramkothi, Hyderabad. Her
Plz refer Refer AP High Court WP 34222/2011. AP High court CC201/2012 and CC1023/2013 orders issued for re-appointment and disbursement of salary to a fake SC papers job holder

[…] year ago, it was of common knowledge that corruption is deeply rooted in India. However, it was the scandalous year 2010 that established this perception into fact. All the major scams – be it Commonwealth games […]

corruption is the major problem in our country. that’s why our country is not developing at faster growth as cmprare than another country. mainly all the corrupt people are coming from the bjp party. government has a control over cbi.so government should have to remove the control on cbi. that they can investgate deeply and caught all the corrupt people from congress and bjp prty.

Grate article and teach more to us.Bribe takes major role in india in every human.We all are wrong because we take bribe and we give bribe.People are increasing day by day in India more as well as corruption also increasing more and more.

OUR HON PM WAS ECONOMIC ADVISER TO GOVT FROM 1971, RBI GOVERNOR FROM 82 TO 85, DY CHAIRMAN- PLANNING COMMISSION FROM 85 TO 87 AND PM FROM 2004 – A TOTAL SERVICE OF.
33 YEARS -I, E; 50% INDIAN INDEPENDENT YEARS AS FINANCIAL LEADER-& GUIDE FOR OUR COUNTRY'S.
ECONOMIC POLICIES. NOW EVERY BODY TALKS ABOUT CORRUPTION- IGNORING THAT THE CONGRESS.
RULED THE COUNTRY FOR 58 YEARS- AND ALMOST BY NEHRU FAMILY EXCEPT FOR 8 YEARS BY OTHERS.
SOME BODY COMMENTED THAT INDIA HAS BECOME A HEAVEN FOR BLACK MONEY.

OUR LEGAL SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE SHARPENED TO CURB CORRUPTION IN THE SOCIETY. HOPEFULLY THE
NEW GENERATION YOUNG BEUROCRATS & POLITICIANS SHOULD CHANGE THE POLICIES AND CREATE.
A CLEAN SOCIETY.

INDIA ECONOMIC OFFENCES =CEASE EVERYTHING & GET IT IN RBI &
SETTLE CLAIMS AS AND WHEN CAME IMMEDIATELY AT LEAST AT PAR FOR INVESTMENTS MADE
THE OFFENDERS WHO HAS IN MIND GIVE SOME CRORES TO POLICE AND POLITICIANS & GET SAFE- THEY MUST SEE EVAPORATION OF HIS WEALTH FAST & LEARN THEY CANT ENJOY ON OTHERS BREAD & BUTTER =THIS IS INDIA

If anyone even suggests paying a business transaction with Western Union… scam, IMHO…. And now I'm to lose thousands even with PayPal…. back to COD or net 30? We are being nickeled and dimes by the gazillions… you are killing business for the small mom and pops… thanks for the article… Next one on Health Care? ciao.

Hello,,,
I think my Nation is going through one of the worst Political time ever………
I cant say Every minister,officer,Goveernment servant is is currpted but most fo all is Currupted.
Poeple are aware about it but no action is being taken.Every day on Telivision,News paper we see new

2012 Indian coal mining controversy – 2012 – 185,591.34 crore (US$35.08 billion) nation Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the coal ministry, many electricity boards and private companies coal blocks allotted, not auctioned, leading to estimated losses as per the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

I want to say only one thing, we ( all Indian Public) are responsible for all this, because if we don’t give our valuable votes to these bastards then it never happen. So it’s better learn from past and be careful in future.

i think corruption at bottom level prevails because of the upper levels. Here the root is not at the bottom but at the top; because if strict laws are formulated against corruption ;and authorities at upper levels do not favor the corruption; then authorities at lower level cann’t even dare to think about doing wrong things.

curruption isnot a physical thing which can be bought or sold from market, or it can be prevented from becoming part of our daily life. it is a starting point of limitless greed of making easy money by hook or crrok say in politics , business or any buerocracy. absolute power currupts absolutely.
If I am in a position to do or not to do favour or disfavour to some one interested eitherway to get his desirefulfilled, and I have stong conviction that by my command , I can influence the process, I will be tempted to take undue advantage.
I your inner sole is suppressed by greed you will start taking bribe, once started, it willgo limitless. once your inner sole survived not to take bribe, you will be withstand with real purpose of your human life. you will lead your life within your means you earn in job job without fear and honesty.
no outsider can forcefully give you bribe. it is just like a mud pot if you want to get down in it you can, but don't , no bbody can see you in mud. I think you will agree to my little experience of practical life working as Banker started as clerk and ended as chief manager of a nationalised bank.
“BUT HONESTY IS ALWAYS RESISTED BY TOOTH AND NAIL BY MAJORITY BELONGING TO DISHONEST LOT“.

curruption isnot a physical thing which can be bought or sold from market, or it can be prevented from becoming part of our daily life. it is a starting point of limitless greed of making easy money by hook or crrok say in politics , business or any buerocracy. absolute power currupts absolutely.
If I am in a position to do or not to do favour or disfavour to some one interested eitherway to get his desirefulfilled, and I have stong conviction that by my command , I can influence the process, I will be tempted to take undue advantage.
I your inner sole is suppressed by greed you will start taking bribe, once started, it willgo limitless. once your inner sole survived not to take bribe, you will be withstand with real purpose of your human life. you will lead your life within your means you earn in job job without fear and honesty.
no outsider can forcefully give you bribe. it is just like a mud pot if you want to get down in it you can, but don't , no bbody can see you in mud. I think you will agree to my little experience of practical life working as Banker started as clerk and ended as chief manager of a nationalised bank.
“BUT HONESTY IS ALWAYS RESISTED BY TOOTH AND NAIL BY MAJORITY BELONGING TO DISHONEST LOT“.

ITS TRUE….. IN OUR COUNTRY THERE ARE CORRUPTION EVERYWHERE…. BT WE ARE BLAMING ONLY OTHERS… JUST THINK WT WE R INDIVIDULY DOING TO STOP THIS……… ???? .. IT IS EASY TO BLAME OR DISCUSS…. BT DIFFICULT TO DO PRACTLY SOMTHING … NOW ITS TIME TO GV TH TOTAL SUPPORT OR TAKE PART IN THOSE PEOPLES MOVEMENTS WHO ARE FIGHTING AGANIST THIS EVIL………………

what to say more than it about curruption wich has gone burning problem for everybody. i really wanna thank to this website which has shown us list of scam. .until we care about only our life ,our childrens, we can not change our country. what do we do ?only studying,bringing up family not more than it.we fear from taking steps against cuuruption and blame to thoe leaders who is involved in cuuruption.they are better than us bacause they do their work and we read about their work in newspaper.we should worship them because they do their work and we are arguming? if you really serious abiut your country then leave everything and go to kill all those leaders who are main preventer in betterment of our country otherwise we should shut down our mouth

Fodder eater Lalu Prasad Yadav is a Member of Standing Committee who will examine the Lokpal Bill. Now we can imagine what type of Lokpal Government wants. We, common people, want team Anna's Lokpal bill, nothing else. We want Janlokpal Only.

Fodder eater Lalu Prasad Yadav is a Member of Standing Committee who will examine the Lokpal Bill. Now we can imagine what type of Lokpal Government wants. We, common people, want team Anna's Lokpal bill, nothing else. We want Janlokpal Only.

I see soo many comments and articles about Indian corruption but all are just affirming the same thing again and again and not many come up with idea to reduce this menace. Also the ones that do come up with a solution they only just come up with a solution, No one’s putting any effort into putting the solution to action. At the moment I don’t see any party or union capable of leading India. Be it the corrupt Congress or the Communal BJP. I’ve never voted after hitting 18 just because of this. I don’t give a damn about democracy if by democracy we’re putting the wrong leaders at the head of the country. I honestly don’t think any1 should vote just for the sake of putting a party as a government and keeping our democratic ideals. Some1 said that congress is so corrupt but still many stupids are voting for them. Hello, these people you called stupids are more than 50% of the electorate and run into more than a billion people. It should be our job not to inform them and spread awareness. I tell people not to vote if they find neither of the candidates suitable. I inform people about the scams of various governments irrespective of the party. I don’t care if the democratic set up fails if people don’t vote, let there not be a government till the parties realize that they can’t set up a government if they have corrupt people among them.

Another things is job security in government jobs. If government entities are run like private establishments, where efficiency and results mean everything, we won’t have corruption. Our government departments should be such that every senior officer will be afraid to loose his job because of the inefficiency of a junior and a junior officer should be afraid that he will loose his job if he doesn’t work. Let the lazy donkeys beg on the streets for all i care. I’d rather educate the honest beggar to work for a government job than have a dishonest rascal take a half an hour break after every 15 mins of work. Excuse my language but my emotions are really tingling at the moment.

Also the youth need to be more aware. The youth are the major forces of all these political parties because they’re easily manipulated by politicians. The youth need to think for themselves and think in the best interests of the country, not for their community or for their group of friends. Once the youth are mobilized I know that they will not let these corrupt bastards lead the country. Well after writing this, i feel i still need to do alot more to bring these ideas to life and help india become corruption free

Its all fun with people. From starting we are facing the problem ” AGAR RAJYA KA RAJA CHOR HOGA TABHI WAHA KE MANTRI,SIPAHI CHOR HONGE AUR WAHAN KE PRAJA BHUKH SE TARPEGE”.
Don’t feel sorrow no one even a single culprit is going to be punished.

my self eish nigam
every day a nw scam is in frount of us its over money tax money a unlitrate poletical party and a minesters are miss using it and no one can do any thing it will make us again the same as we r in 1940 we have to stop it we know our rights .we nead a law where all leaders and government employs and bissness class are in a same tray no one can cheat especilay these poletesions . while voting we have a right to reject the person if the all candidates r corrept.this genration will make a diffrence not these sikh old correpted leaders .all the leaders have to go through a pole test .so we can know they r clean or not.

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I think a lot of people looking to start a home business just don't know where to look for help. Whether they know what they want to do or need some help deciding what to do, most people need help when starting out. http://www­.helpmeple­ase.ws has a great starting point for those that are looking for ideas on where to begin.

Hi Xavier,
Not only congress I to be hold responsible for corruption… it we the people of India paid the bribe to get our needful to be done… we have to rethink how can we over come all this now. not to blame one party or one political person… even these days most of the Corporate’s are in corruptions and scams…

Sanah Rizvi yes u r rut brother…but some people just know how to bark on the system, they never do anything for the country but just bark all the time when things go wrong…they don't know they are not worthy for the country…whenever they needed for the help they say the same thing "right you are but what can we do"…they dont know their power..!!

i would like to thank you viral as well as the people who are commenting here and giving their views but one thing to be noted is that all us are only concentrating on the scams being posed by politicians or the millionairs. but i want to say that who will think about eradicating all these. who will think to rectify all the guils done by them, who will be there to become responsible to rectify the system to make our country a good place to live in. are they politicians or the milleniors no they are among us so lets try to eradicate this instead blaming others.

This is shame on india doing this all stuff,
I was first influenced by Raju Ramalinga and thought of opening a software company like him but never thought he would turn up like this.
Thank you Viral for opening my eyes.

Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day – By Biju Mathew and Vijay Prashad (25 Apr 2001, Z Magazine)

Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. “You can give dollars,” said the President of the BJP. “You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Security Advisor] Brajesh Mishra because he has access to the defense, foreign and other related ministries.” The tehelka.com sting showed a web of corruption that spans the BJP, the RSS, the Samata Party, sections of the Armed Forces and the illegal arms brokers. What is Mr. Laxman, head of the so-called patriotic BJP, doing with bribes, even more so what does it mean that he wanted the money in dollars?

Total money lost through corruption from 1947 to 2010 is 20.23 Trillion in USD… Imagine if India Have all those money means off sure India will be Super power in Over night… But still we expecting other hand for our own expenditure :(

Total money lost through corruption from 1947 to 2010 is 20.23 Trillion in USD… Imagine if India Have all those money means off sure India will be Super power in Over night… But still we expecting other hand for our own expenditure :(

Respected Sir/Madam,
Any body fight against corruption they/he can not win, I am 100% sure, because I have lots of evidence that I can proof (OC, SP, addl. SP, Police Department. And political leaders, some government employee) are take bribe/they are corrupted.
So I wrote my matter to our local P.S., Local Councilor, all M.P., M.L.A., Minister in W.B. and Other States, C.M. in W.B. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Mamata Banerjee, (DIDI), CBI Department, CID Department, S.P. and Dy.S.P.(N.) 24 Parganas, DGP Bhupindar Singh, All the I.P.S. AND I.A.S. OFFICERS, All DGPs/IGPs. Election Commission of India, All Indian Union Minister, UPA Chairperson. Sonia Gandhi, Governor in W.B, and President in India 32 TH. P.M. in India, National/International Human rights department (Justice Shymal Kumar Sen, Chairperson W.B.), Department of Women and Child Development, AAP KI KACHEHRI – KIRAN KE SAATH, Kolkata Police, and all police officers in W.B. informed Kolkata Commissioner of Police, Manager S.B.I.-Branch: 24B, Nimtala Ghat Street, Jorabagan, Kolkata- 700006, West Bengal, India, Bank Ph. No. 033 25308337. My nation, all of the news channels, and all press, The Central Vigilance Commission, President of the United States, Talking with some NGO’s: 1. Universal Right and Duty for Human to Abide URDHA, 2. Human Right Commission’s Mr. Ujjal Paul and Mr. Shibaji Dasgupta. 3. Bhatat Bachao Sangathan BBS. 4. Forum for Social Justice and Development FSJD. 5. Ajjtak News Channel’s Miss Menogya. and many more, (anybody can’t help me/ fight for truth /don’t take investigation/do not take any action/don’t take any type of query/ Still Now, many department told does not comes under the purview of our department. Then my question is where I go now? I see they all are in sound asleep. The reason is best known to them. But still now no action taken from any department. I can proof it.
With kindest regards,
Dipak Kumar Adhikari.
Tegharia(Dhali Para), NandanKanan. P.S.: Baguiati. P.O.: Hatiara. Dist.: North24Parganas.
Kolkata-700059 Email: [email protected].
W.B. India. PH. 9874389190

Mr.Rajendra Prasad you are absoultly right ……..our rakshak is become a bhakshak . But the main reason is to become them bakshak is us …….. so first of all we have to improve ourself then only we can improve our society and world ……………. !

MORAL EDUCATION NEED TO BE MORE IMPORTANT TO SAVE OUR GENARATION FROM THIS KIND OF NIGHTMARES……OTHER WISE ONE OR TWO ANNA IS NOT ENOUGH….. ITS IMPORTANT TO MAKE OUR SELF AS MORAL AS ANNA'S LIFE……AND SPREAD OUR INNER FLAME TO OTHER LET MAKE A GROUP AREA WISE , OTHERWISE ITS VERY DIFFICULT TO FIGHT WITH CORRUPTED SOCIAL SYSTEM.

what much of amount required for one to complete his needs?????????.how many of us can dare to write about seize the property of all these fraudulent and must recover.
their are many common man who is hardly earn and fulfil the requirments of his daily needs.
do you not think that this is the hard earned money of all of us.how come one give example about curreption is available in dif.sectors? does it means any politicians is free to do what he wants to do???????????
all of us selected them to go in parliament and the best suitable to lift the living standared of common man.
is it the expectation fr. politicians to use your money in such a way???/

True Jayshree, But at least the concerned people (activists) are trying to enforce a law to combat corruption. Purifying the bill can go on and on, and could be a continuous process. To cut it short, something is better than nothing.

Fodder eater Lalu Prasad Yadav is a Member of Standing Committee who will examine the Lokpal Bill. Now we can imagine what type of Lokpal Government wants. We, common people, want team Anna's Lokpal bill, nothing else. We want Janlokpal Only.

LOKPAL is no doubt a welcoming bill. but there is no tool to stop the sources of corruption even in lokpal also.it is nothing but cleaning the floor with cloth by not closing the opened taps. that should also to be done.

True Jayshree, But at least the concerned people (activists) are trying to enforce a law to combat corruption. Purifying the bill can go on and on, and could be a continuous process. To cut it short, something is better than nothing.

Do 100% voting in next election… Middle class especially you, you think who the hell cares… Now you're suffering and Mr. Anna is trying to save you out. Just Support his movement by doing 100% voting in each and every elections. And see the results and see the changing and real shining INDIA for which we are Proud of… Jay Hind.. Vande Mataram!

Hindutva For a Few Dollars a Day – By Biju Mathew and Vijay Prashad (25 Apr 2001, Z Magazine)

Bangru Laxman asks the intrepid tehelka.com journalists to bring him $30,000 to their next meeting. He has already taken Rs. 1 lakh. “You can give dollars,” said the President of the BJP. “You talk to us directly. We normally turn to [National Security Advisor] Brajesh Mishra because he has access to the defense, foreign and other related ministries.” The tehelka.com sting showed a web of corruption that spans the BJP, the RSS, the Samata Party, sections of the Armed Forces and the illegal arms brokers. What is Mr. Laxman, head of the so-called patriotic BJP, doing with bribes, even more so what does it mean that he wanted the money in dollars?

we have best engineers , doctors , teaching institutes , largest man power, money. we have everything that is needed to make a country powerful developed nation , then why still one-third of population is uncivilized , why every second indian is saying ki is desh ka kuch ni ho sakta , ye desh gadhdhe mein ja rha h , why best minds of country are going outside of india (NASA 36%indians , IBM 29%indians , 14%doctors in usa are indians and many more). goverment makes many policies but no one is bothered whether they r implemented at grass root level perfectly or not.why every next day we have bomb blast , every morning u will hear new scam , why? ALL THIS IS BECOZ OF CORRUPTION.

Its not about the single party…it is by the people in the parties….
one question for my side……if any govt offical had a money beyond his income..he was caught by anti corruption bureau (ACB)….y not the politicians (they also govt officals)….But the politicians are increase the economic strength by dng the scams, other routes…..

Sanah Rizvi yes u r rut brother…but some people just know how to bark on the system, they never do anything for the country but just bark all the time when things go wrong…they don't know they are not worthy for the country…whenever they needed for the help they say the same thing "right you are but what can we do"…they dont know their power..!!

I believe that it is not our place to sit and criticise the way things are done unless we are actively involved in making them better however it does still amaze me that the government, the supposed protector of faith and many businessmen continue to ignore ethics in sight of monetary benefit… the silver lining if you wish to see it is that thanks to all the advantage that has been taken we have reached the point where the youth is willing to participate to clean up the mess..

In swiss bank it is estimated 40 lakh crore of money and our government is so corrupt, I think india is rightly a golden sparrow even today and I am also stubborn on the fact that if congress would be there our money one day will be completely wiped out! leaving indians paupers!

The biggest scams were committed by the rulers of the state or country at the time. There is a reason why we have continued to preserve the convoluted British political and legal framework, it isolates the rulers from the common people and keeps them in power, allowing them to keep exploiting the country just like the British.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself. Swami Vivekanand

Dear Everyone there is someone that call himself leads and SMTP seller in India, he has a website the name of the website is http://www.fommyss.com and his email id is [email protected], His Name: Daksh Nayak, his location : Ahmedabad – 380015 (INDIA). he is a great scammer do not go near him, because all he want to do is either scam you or rip you off. he just rip me off my cool dollars anyway and i will not want this to happen to anyone else thats why i am posting it online so everyone can see this. his contact phone number is this +919724315096. if you call him he will never answer the call after he scam you so please kindly dont send your cool cash to him

I read 10 top list of corruptions in India, above, but there is one more to be added, i.e. lands scam, at Giri Nagar, Bangalore – 560 085, by B Krishna Bhat, who engaged in selling properties without title, by encroaching BDA lands, from the year 1984 till 2009, a span of 25 years, cheating nearly 9000 poor public of their hard earned money, amounting nearly Rs.540/= Crores, as per information material from Sub-Registrar Office – Kengeri, Bommanahalli, and Banashankari, under RTI Act. Recently, I lodged a complaint with Co-op. department, of 333 pages, and no action is taken till today. Infact, an attermpt was made to send me to jail by implicating me in false SC/ST criminal case # 260/2007, Dated 27-7-07, under prevention of SC/ST Atrocities Act, a non-bailable offence, for filing WP NO. 10813/07 (GM-PIL) praying the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka, for CBI enquiry. This petition was dismissed because the State Government + Home Department filed false Affidavits, the one who have to support me in my cause, because they are corrupt. I am still fighting, being one of the victim, and also being Pensioner from defence (from mediacl branch of Indian Navy), having served this Nation in two wars (in 1962 China Aggression & in 1971 Pakistan war. I will appreciate if any High Ranking Official come acrtoss of this post and rescue the victims, and bring the corrupt to books.

Its an irony that the country of this magnitude has to suffer in the hands of a very few people against a population of tall order. Its a national shame! We need to evolve a second republic dovetailing issues plaguing our system!

swiss bank black money???Indians have $1456 billion in Swiss banks. This amount is about 13 times larger than the country’s foreign debt
Once this huge amount of black money and property comes back to India, the entire foreign debt can be repaid in 12 hours. after repaid every indian gets Rs.50,000 so there will be no poverty in india…………

When illegal activity is permitted legally, how can you question or stop corruption. See the UGC announcement The last date for sumission of application is 02.05.11 with paying fee in the online before 28.04.11. But the result of the previous examination held in April 2010 has not yet been declared. It has been announce that the result will be announced in the 2nd week of May 2011. The conditions stipulates that the fees once remitted will not be returned on any account. A University commission whjich is going to select their Fellow ship/Lectures to teach the society/students is openly cheating every body by collecting money from students without announcing the result. Is it the way of collecting fund to UGC. Method of cheating starts at teaching centre. Then How will be the society which comes out will be. VERY, VERY SHAME. Not able to digest the things are happening. Change your self. Don’t show the way of cheating.

The youth of the Indian living a Painful life in india because of this politics
Still to come some more Scam for Tamilnadu Govt. ……… soon.
The complet TN polititions should be Bank A/c to be ceased and there family and there friends circule business to be cross verified by the center audit.

Nice article. The only reason that our country is still racing ahead despite these painful scamsters is the sheer effort of the Indian people.

Anyway let’s hope that this thing will change. The start of the corruption dismantling process has begun and with the courts and the media breathing down the government’s neck, corruption has to scale down or become more sophisticated

dis to bad to our country becoz dere lot people under unemployment ,illlliteracy, below poverty line leading there lives but dis scams in our country. represents india is not a democratic country its a politicians country with dis indian government has to change there entire system at the same time public has to change attitude

As each year passes ,we see growing trends of scams which certainly india is facing.
One of worst kind of scam ,2g spectrum is worst example and even it raises doubt over indian govt..being lazy in taking concrete action against the fraudsters.

Nearly all the communities in India (such as Bengali), are succumbed in ‘Culture of Poverty'(a theory introduced by an American anthropologist Oscar Lewis), irrespective of class or economic strata, lives in pavement or apartment. Nobody is at all ashamed of the deep-rooted corruption, decaying general quality of life, worst Politico-administrative system, weak mother language, continuous absorption of common space (mental as well as physical, both). We are becoming parents (mindlessly) only by blindfold self-procreation, simply depriving their (the children) fundamental rights of a decent, caring society, fearless & dignified living. Do not ever look for any other positive alternative behaviour (values) to perform human way of parenthood, i.e. deliberately co-parenting of those children those are born out of ignorance, real poverty. All of us are being driven only by the very animal instinct. Can the Indians (Bengali) ever be able to bring that genuine freedom (from vicious cycle of ‘poverty’) in their own life/attitude, start themselves ‘Production of Space’ (Henri Lefebvre), at least, initiate a movement, by heart.
– Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, 16/4, Girish Banerjee lane, Howrah-711101, India.

I want to know in the past how many people got punishment after they are caught in corruption. So many scam surfaces every now and then. The concerned authorities are catching them but what is the result. If they do not get punishment what is the use of catching.
I am really disturbed.
MADHU.

To the best of my knowledge, its an absolute 0. New scams are unearthed everyday and we forget the old scams. Be it Bofors or Kargil coffin scam, it all just goes on and on for eternity.

See the plight – a whistleblower from Haryana in the Forest department was so much harassed by his colleagues, seniors, politicians and police that the President had to interfere and quash all orders against him. If such is the state of affairs, its only a wild guess when we will see even a single scam closure with all the goons behind bars under non-bailable warrants or serving life terms.

You’re right! At first, it takes years together to displace these miscreants from the system through the judicial process. Once they are proved guilty, the Indian laws are not good enough to grind such culprits completely out of the system. Sad but truth!

Rahul Gandhi himself told that it is Indian National Congress , the only political party in India
which fights against corruption. Now Lalu Prasad who is convicted and gone to jail, got bail and still indulging in his dirty politics of secularism ( in fact he does know what it is and also
corruption ) Only people know that corruption is there in all castes and religions and hence all should fight against it and those supporting it for the sake of votes. It is a pity within few weeks Rahul Gandhi held talks with Lalu and it seems they reached an agreement on seat sharing for outsiders. This is the stance of Congress’s so called Prime Ministerial candidate. No congress man in entire India commented on this. Surely people are observing it . If anybody thins these people will bring trasperency, he is a fool.

these people should live with poor people who are leaving in slum arias by collecting wasteand quarelling for food and daily needs,then only they will realise what is poverty why it happennig with people

yes, but we need a healthy govt.
how can we get it?
we want people to think of it in a better manner. Cant we take an action on corrupt people? It is not possible with one man to get corruption free India. It should be done as a team work.as if we think of india and indian people in the freedom movement we have several leaders by whom the people were enlighted and fought with the false govt. we need correct decisions and we need proper leaders to guide the way.

This happened to me recently and I think many would relate themselves to my so called “story”.

I had to get my voter card renewed/address changed since I recently relocated to another city owing to my job commitments. So I went to the concerned department to get the needful done. The department asked me for an address proof. Now, I relocated to a new city so my passport had the old address (they need an address proof again), I am yet to apply for a landline number (they need an address proof), the department would not accept my mobile bill as a valid document, my private bank statement of my savings account would not be considered either.

I leave the department wondering – If I need the voter card to participate in the elections and serve as my address proof how on earth can I go ahead with it?

Coming on corruption – Each and every person that I have seen in the government organization is corrupt. They need someone to grease their palms. And yes, the saviors, the police themselves are so corrupt that the less we speak about them, the better it is.

Leaders who would really change the face of India and get it to corruption free status have loads of backlog to carry. Often their decisions displeases someone in the “ruling government” and they are left gasping for air.

A single window public grievance solution system should be incorporated in all towns and villages. Direct under the control of a team constituting of Home Minister, CAG, Anti corruption bureau reporting to the President.

If not, lets choose another Hitler or Mussolini to weed out these corrupt politicians and officials.

yes, but we need a healthy govt.
how can we get it?
we want people to think of it in a better manner. Cant we take an action on corrupt people? It is not possible with one man to get corruption free India. It should be done as a team work.

s sir, u r right, but iam earning weekly 1000 rupees, sometimes this amount also not even get. i am living with my wife two kids my father and mother, how can i think about my scam eroded country. first i have to think about my family. we all poor peoples get tired about the selection of good people on the eve of election. So all we are ready to fucked up again and again, ready to beg even roadside also.

Nice compilation. Just my two cents – DSQ , Enron and the Golden Forest Scam should find their way in the list of the top 10.

There is hardly any branch or stream that is untouched by scams. However, the worse part is that no matter how many scams are unearthed, justice is hardly served. And when it is finally served (lucky few!) most of the recipients have already bid farewell to this world and others are too old to even remember what the scam was.

Scams as long as they not detected or spoken of will pass on as normal works. So far we are seeing in papers about 2G scam, CWG scam etc. But there is a much bigger scam that is going to unfirl very soon connected to Banking industry – involving various facets like recruitment, take over of fraud accounts by other public sector Banks from the affected public sector Bank etc.
The new master mind frauds that are played but veteran vigilance agencies that are closing their eyes are on take over scams in public sector Banks. I can quote a small example. A fraud account is financed by a public sector bank and the sanctioning authority knows it is a fraud account. The account operates for an year or two and when the fraud is detected, another public sector bank takes over the account and the sanctioning authority in the previous Bank is not questioned as the account is fully adjusted in his bank. Only as an eye wash they catch hold of the poor Branch Manager, who becomes a scape goat in the entire episode. Bank donot pursue the matter as there is no monetary loss to the Bank. The borrower repeats the same feat in the next Bank and the process continues. This only indicates that there is a consortium of top Bank executives of public sector banks who protect each other in this wily way. It is time CBI / CVC should look into all these cases of take over accounts even when the accounts are closed. Probably we may unearth a much bigger scam than Teclecom / 2G scam.
Apart from this after disbanding of BSRB, some of the public sector banks are involved in large scale recruitment scams which need to be impartially be probed by CBI & CVC.

Hi Viral,
Good compilation,
I believe the list of scams in India is so long that figuring out top 10 of those would have been a really difficult task,
The Neera Radia case & the Adarsh society case are the limelights these days..
Corruption is an inseperable part of India, i feel sad to write but we are living in a society where govt knows how to extract money from commoners & leave no stone unturned to dupe them
The amount of tax that we pay each day on every money we spend helps in increasing Mayawati’s yearly income to crores ..
A common man is left with nothing, he cannot even fill in a DDA form n expect transparency in the results for allotments.
The country is being put to shame, thanks to these politicians.they can fall to any level to keep their pockets warm…

Dear Viral,
A fine work of compilation.Having been in the NDA followed by the Indian Navy,corruption and bribes did not touch me,albeit there was another malaise that was present in the system that was equally abhorrent……bias,apple polishing and favouritism. If you care to notice,you would observe that officers in the ranks above Brig would mostly hail from Delhi n thereabouts….more on that later.
How about taking on the money in swiss/cayman banks or is it a holy cow??nobody seems to be touching it.
Ravi

You’re right. Actually, the scam had just broken at the time while I was writing this article. So, could not include it in this scamtational post.

It is said that such irregularities and corruption was always prevelant in the Housing Finance business in assoication with real estate builders. Just that this particular instance of scam broke out in public. Many such thriving scams might still be lingering in the system behind the veils.

Looking at the way some of these scams have been coming out, including the recent one of housing finance scam, it really seems that the rogues are no more interested in smaller fishes. They want shark-sized baits and make life time earnings from their unscrupulous acts.

@viral: kudos for another nice article…. u just seem to be getting better & better ! :)
few points:
what surprises me most, & makes me stand in awe is the astonishing growth of our country inspite of such scams . . . which proves there are ‘good’ peops working quietly, doing their bit, & never coming into limelight !
cheers to their spirit !
now, what i wonder is is it the system that is wrong, or the janata’s constant striving to overtake the system . . . . i mean ofcourse, we need to improve the systems to ensure less corruptions, like maybe having cameras. . . .et al, but fundamentally speaking, are they completely inefficient??/ or we just need to improve the technicalities??
can we really bring about a phenomenal change in corruption, or will it continue like this only ! could be what comes up is hardly a tip of the ice-berg.
i am sure the media can keep going to the bank w/ all these scams,….+ there would be all sorts of people involved in it.
but public memory is short. i read/heard abt CWG here after a long time it feels !
from here, how can we grow??? how can we ensure, that such things don’t happen ??

Yes, as you said good people are still prevailing in the system. but, the nexus of corrupted people is so humungous that the good deeds get washed away by the maligned actions of the unscrupulous politicians.

These multi-thousand crore worth of scams are too big to engulf behind the savings and growth propelled by the good people. The magnitude of scams are much bigger than ever before. The stakes have gone up and so has corruption charges.

And then we say there is no progress in India. Poverty is not going away, why there is so much unemployment, brain drain and so on.

because so many lakh crores have vanished into the thin air. Well, that is not a big deal. We are dildaar Indians. Big deal is all these scammers are still alive, enjoying their empires. And who is fucked up everyday is an honest man, a school teacher or a farmer, who won’t be ever able to buy a car or dream. The are living just to hear about another scam after another.

What can laws of the land do when they are sold and mold for them, they are only for you and me… I heard Kasab is also still alive.

Out of this all ..one things has surely happened. I no longer now see or hear: Mera Bharat Mahaan…after all hypes don’t live longer!

Agreed with your view. In fact, just when a feeling of a calm was creeping in during the UPA’s 1st term, it panned out to be a calm before the storm. and, the UPA-II has been the term of exposing all those scandals.

At least, some of these scams are coming to the public light. Rather I feel this could just be a tip of the iceberg. God alone knows how many more scam would have been supressed under the table… out from the public reach.

Hopefully, the media should play a crucial role in exposing some of these unearthed scams. Will media live up to the expectations???

I call it a double standard: while even a small time thief is looked down upon by the society, the looters in the garb of netas and babus are only glorified by the same society. Our netas and babus know this only too well and are pretty comfortable that despite all the screaming headlines of this scams and mega-scams, their shelf life is only till the next mega-mega scams break out and they happen in maddening regularity.

Nice compilation. However I have a suggestion. Most of us are used to the amounts in thousands of crores, be it in company business figures or mergers and aquisitions or new project costs. Now the scams have graduated to lakhs of crores. But most of us can not visualize one lakh seventy six thousand crores. I have read an article some where which makes it convenient for ordinary people like me. They say 2G scam is worth 38 billion USD equivalent. See? very simple. Now we can understand that it is equivalent to our trade deficit for one year or twice the size of FII inflows.

Only yesterday another interesting Top of the world list was announced in rediff. Its No. 1 Shop lifters in the world. India tops with anual 2.6 billion USD worth of shop lifting. Though this is irrelavent to the topic of the article, I just thought to say that its in our genes that we loot where ever possible irrespective of status of the person. If they are politicians / businessmen, they do it big. Even normal people do the looting if possible.

I also do not intend to imply that only Indians do it. When I saw the shoplifting list, I was surprised to find Finland, Norway, Denmark which are ahead in all kinds of standard fo living lists are among top 10 shop lifters!!

Selecting the Top 2 scandals was as simple as doing a catwalk (though, I realize that even doing a catwalk is not so easy!), as not many scams in Indian have so far crossed Rs.20-30 thousand crores in terms of size.

So far as the Telgi scam is concerned, I was definitely a bit surprised to realize that it could well be the third biggest scam in India. And yeah… it is also one of the few scandals wherein the culprit is actually behind the bars.

Hope you ‘enjoyed’ the compilation, rather I would use the word ‘disgraced’ by the list of scams in India.